we're talking about a u.s. senate that hasn't even passed a budget resolution in three years and that's a politically defined outcome. i think the sense of this has to be that congress is unable to do the things that are basic priorities and we'll have to push this from the outside. >> let's talk about what lessons your group took from 2012 and how you plan to -- do you plan to make any changes and what would you like to see done, and do you think conservatives and republ republicans can continue living under the tent of the republican party? >> we met with about 120 activists and tea party leaders from across the country all weekend. and we had some tough conversations about what we did wrong. what we did right. our sense is that 2012 was very much a beauty contest between mitt romney and barack obama. all of the issues that mattered so much in the 2010 election like health care, we didn't have that conversation. we think it should be a choice between fiscal responsibility and patient control over health care